Volumes Os X Install Esd Basesystem Dmg

10-05-2021
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Preparation

May 28, 2016  Update: Written for OSX El Capitan. Works for macOS Sierra as well. While VirtualBox is a great product easy to use to create Virtual Machines and configure in few minutes, trying to create a Virtual Machine with a OSX system could be very tricky. Jun 11, 2013 A USB install disc can be an important tool to quickly and easily install a fresh copy on your Mac, without first having to install OS X Mountain Lion and then upgrade using the Mac App Store method. Since Apple has changed a few things since their first developer preview, we’ve got a new method for creating a USB install disc also –.

Oct 08, 2015  Open OS X Install ESD volume in Finder, select Packages folder and copy them to System/Installation folder on USB drive. Also copy BaseSystem.chunklist and BaseSystem.dmg files from InstallESD.dmg volume to root of USB flash drive (OS X Base System). Now your El Capitan installation USB drive is prepared and ready for use. Jun 14, 2016  1. MacOS Sierra via torrent or dirrent links, open the.dmg 2. Right-click the.app - 'Show Package Contents' 3. Open (mount) InstallESD.dmg, located along t. Oct 08, 2015 Introduction. Apple officially released OS X 10.11 El Capitan operating system in September 2015 as an update through Apple App Store. This actualization will update core of your system and preserve your user data.

Download OS X Yosemite from the Mac App Store and open the Terminal.app to install iesd, a Ruby tool to customize OS X Install ESD's:

Customize InstallESD

Before we can use the vanilla Yosemite Installer in VirtualBox, we have to customize the InstallESD using iesd first as well as convert it into a sparse image (UDSP format):

Now we need to mount both the original InstallESD and the customized sparse image that we just generated ...

... to copy the missing original base system files back into the customized InstallESD:

Unmount both the InstallESD and the sparse image:

As well as the mounted disks via diskutil and your Terminal:

Note: If that doesn't work and you get a 'resource busy' message in step 12, try using the Disk Utility.app:

Finally we can convert it back into a .dmg file (UDZO format):

Installation in VirtualBox

Open VirtualBox, insert the customized yosemitefixed.dmg in the CD-ROM drive of your guest system and make sure to adjust the chipset to 'PIIX3'.

Now you can start up your VM, open the Disk Utility.app within the installer and create a new HFS+ partition to install a fresh copy of Yosemite.

Here are some of the frequently asked questions from the comments. In case you encounter any issues or problems, check below to find a solution.

Error message: 'Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)'

Try to reinstall VirtualBox to fix this error.

Stuck on boot: 'Missing Bluetooth Controller Transport'

Try the following steps to fix this issue:

  1. Stop the virtual machine in VirtualBox.
  2. Open a new terminal window.
  3. Run the following command to adjust the guest CPU (don't forget to replace [your_VM_name>] with your actual VM name):

Adjust screen resolution

To control the GOP (Graphics Output Protocol), use the following Terminal command:

Where [n] can be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 referring to 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1440x900 or 1920x1200 screen resolution respectively.

This guide deals with 3 ways of making a boot disk from OSX 10.9 Mavericks the first one is the fastest and is done via the Terminal from a new command already in OSX Mavericks called createinstallmedia , the other 2 are older ways when Mavericks was in development and are done with a mixture of finder using Disk Utility and command line.

Quickest Way

Download Mac OSX 10.9Mavericks but don’t install.

Attach your USB stick/drive.

Launch the Terminal from /Applications/Utilities and enter the command below and then your password when prompted, be sure to change the ‘Untitled‘ name in the below command to your external disk name:

Let it do its thing and there you have it, one bootable Mac OSX 9 drive.

This really is a super simple way – however if using the Terminal fills you with fear and dread, there are some GUI apps that can get the job done namely DiskMakerX and a new imaging tool that can clone a new disk very quickly – AutoDMG.

Alternative Ways of building a Bootable Mavericks OSX Disk.

To make a boot disk of OSX 10.9 Mavericks, first of all get the app or download via the App store, if downloaded it will file in the folder Applications.

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Control / Left click Options, Show in Finder to get to the app, don’t install at this stage.

Located in the Applications Folder

Finding the InstallESD.dmg

To find the actual InstallESD.dmg file, control/left click the ‘Install OS X Mavericks’ app and choose show contents – then navigate to Shared Support folder.

Control/Right click to show contents

Navigate to Shared Support folder to see the InstallESD.dmg file

Mount InstallESD.dmg

Double click to mount the image.

Make Invisible Files Visible

We need to see the BaseSystem.dmg inside the InstallESD.dmg

Crank open Terminal and run:

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This will show all invisible files have a look inside the mounted InstallESD.dmg

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Mount an External Disk

Attach a USB/external drive – this guide uses the external drive name calledBootDisk, you need to make sure the format is correct, it needs to be Mac OSX Extended Journaled – it its not you can format that in Disk Utility.

Launch Disk Utility

Launch Disk Utility as found in Applications/Utilities and go to the Restore tab.

Drag BaseSystem.dmg to the Source field and your external disk to the Destination and click Restore.

This will mount your new OSX 10.9 external disk and name it OSX Base System – but we need to add the packages.

Fix the Packages

Couple of things to fix in the newly created boot disk, remove the Packagealias at System/Installation/ folder

Now from the previously mounted InstallESD.dmg copy over the Packages folder to the same location where we just removed the alias above.

Will take a while as it holds all the install packages.

Job done now you can boot from the OSX 10.9 disk.

Make the Visible back to Invisible

If you want all to return back to normal and hide the system files run a couple more commands in the Terminal

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How to create the OSX 10.9 Mavericks Bootable Drive just via Terminal

Just for the crazy ones……after Mavericks is downloaded….and again this assumes you external disk is named BootDisk

Mount the InstallESD.dmg buried deep in the app

Swap to the newly mounted image

This puts you back in the Finder in front of the newly mounted InstallESD.dmg, go back to Terminal and clone the BaseSystem.dmg to the remote USB drive

This will change ‘BootDisk‘ to ‘OS X Base System‘

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Remove the existing Packages alias link from the newly restored image

Copy the full OSX Mavericks Packages over to the new image….takes a while

And there it is! – to eject the new bootable USB OSX Mavericks 10.9 disk ‘cd’ to home and eject

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Now you can boot up from your newly bootable disk and either Install OSX10.9 on another device or use the Terminal/Disk Utility or Firmware Password Utilities on another device.